North Cascades, WA (377 images)

Photos from the North Cascades National Park in northwest Washington State, including paddling kayaks on Ross Lake, hiking up to the fire lookout on Desolation Peak where Jack Kerouac worked in the 1950s, the North Cascades Institute and its LEED-certified campus on the shores of Diablo Lake, waterfalls, wildflowers and plenty of close-ups of bark and other abstract subjects.